Summer is perfect time

The summer months in the United States are traditionally a slower season of church programming and activities.

But, it’s also a great time to prepare and plan for the fall launch of new programming, new sermon series, and new initiatives.

Most of our churches in the US can experience a renewed cycle of growth in September as families return from summer travel and schools start up again.

Why Evaluate Your Church’s Hospitality Ministry

New visitors will come this fall. New families will have moved into the neighborhood and will be looking for a church.

Is your church hospitality still running in tip-top shape to welcome and receive new visitors?

Are your church hospitality processes flowing smoothly, or is stuff falling through the cracks?

Inertia and inefficiency always creep in to systems, and churches are no different.

Your systems and processes for your church’s hospitality can always be improved, and decaying systems can be refreshed.

When to Evaluate Your Church’s Hospitality System

I suggest doing an in depth church hospitality evaluation quarterly.

If you are launching some big event like a sermon series that is designed to increase the number of first time visitors, you might want to do one a few weeks ahead of time. Back up a few weeks from that Sunday and schedule an evaluation of your church’s hospitality system.

You might also choose to do a brief church hospitality review each week as part of your worship planning.

I know of several churches that review their past service each week and do a quick review of how things went hospitality wise. Takes no more than 2-3 minutes to do a mental sweep to see if something caught your attention, or the attention of your volunteers, that needs to be fixed.

As part of a regular in-depth evaluation of their hospitality ministry, wise hospitality ministry leaders will

Review their facility navigation

Review their current facility appearance.

Review their church visitor follow-up process.

Review their status of current hospitality ministries

Review their current church greeter process / volunteers

Review their process to how they get church visitor contact information.

Doing this kind of in depth evaluation of your church’s hospitality will often reveal a bunch of

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Chris wants to help you increase the number of conversations that lead people towards Christ. He has studied evangelism and church growth ever since working for a Billy Graham crusade over 20 years ago, and has led countless training seminars throughout North and South America in many different denominations.

Dear friend, thank you for the work that your do for the lord jesus about the churhes in our place, we need hospitality, about the, leadership, systems, community helps for hospitality care, evangelism, program, church planting. That i have expirience

I see ways to follow up with visitors….but we cannot get the visitors to give their contact information so we can follow up with them.
We have a sign in book that the greeters ask them to sign but they only put their names.
I have gone up to welcome a visitor and asked them to be sure to leave a phone # or an e-mail address and we would love to send them a card.
No one ever leaves the information…..how can we get people to do this?

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